The Sun card

To live in the light

Supporting / Blocking Tarot Card

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The Sun card is supportive, encouraging the querent to love what is, with its advantages and disadvantages. It advocates for living life fully. The Sun represents life, joy, and happiness. The card also serves as a warning regarding addictions.

Relationships

Career

Finances

Relationships

Career

Finances

The Meaning of The Card

The Sun card represents the illuminated nature, the conscious aspect of the soul. The Sun is a source of energy, light, warmth, freshness, renewal, and the execution of processes. It reflects awareness and active, masculine energy.

The Sun card: The Meaning of The Symbols

Card Symbols	Symbol Meaning
Rising Sun	The sun symbolizes wisdom capable of dispelling shadows. The smile on the sun’s face represents positivity. The sun’s straight and wavy rays symbolize duality—the sun’s ability to warm and to burn. Similarly, a person’s soul moves between the proper use of powerful energy and addiction to it. The sun represents creation, a source of life, illumination, blessing, vitality, power, courage, wisdom, and the potential to burn. The 21 rays represent the stages of the journey.
Sunflower	Wholeness made of parts, love, light, warmth, and a longing for higher realms.
Naked Child	The naked child with arms outstretched symbolizes trust and enthusiasm, immaturity, joy of life, continuous learning, and a desire for new experiences. Nudity represents purity and innocence.
Orange Flag	The flag symbolizes a marker, essence, values, and commitment. Its orange color represents abundance, fertility, love, creation, creativity, and inspiration.
White Horse	The large, illuminated white horse in the foreground symbolizes pure instinctual power. The white color of the horse represents purity, freedom, and the vast spaces in which it gallops, akin to the human soul. The horse also symbolizes physical strength, energy, instinct, nobility, mobility, and spiritual enlightenment.
Wall	The wall behind the child does not hinder his progress or development. It symbolizes what is hidden from view, what has yet to be revealed. The wall represents protection, blockage, boundaries, and concealment.
Wreath	A circle, completeness, infinity, harmony, victory, new beginnings and endings, health, and beauty.
Light Blue Background	Sky, spirituality, infinite possibilities, and eternity.

Mythology

The Sun card is represented in mythology by the god Helios, who pierces through darkness with awareness and light. Later, Apollo took his place as the god of the sun, light, and healing. Just as the sun makes its journey each day, so does the person embark on a journey, reaching a place of light and inner healing.

Representation of the Card in a Reading

The Sun card represents the sun as the source of life. When the sun shines, there is life, joy, and growth. In places where the sun does not shine, such as Alaska or Scandinavia, there is a phenomenon known as seasonal affective disorder due to the lack of sunlight (light increases serotonin levels in the brain, improving mood). While The Moon card represents the mother figure, The Sun card represents the father figure, providing a sense of stability and security in a person’s life. The father symbolizes the person’s attitude towards work, the perception of their job, and the desire to work. For women, The Sun card represents the father figure or the male figure in their life. It also represents the ego and the tendency towards addiction.

It’s important to remember, this is a Major Arcana card, representing the realm of the spirit. The querent’s soul is in a place of the Sun, where, after entering into the subconscious to understand the roots of fear, the person at this stage accepts themselves with their advantages and shortcomings. To embody this card, one should enjoy what they have achieved but not become addicted to the pleasure itself.